Happy Halloween!

Hope everyone is having a great Halloween weekend. I thought I would share this spooky card I created using Momenta products. So here ya go, just a quick & easy tutorial!


Supplies:

Earthtones Cardstock Pad (PA-0659), Pure Textured Cardstock Pad (PA-1036), Acrylic Alpha Stickers (ST-1788), Black & White Gem Stickers (ST-3056), Scissors, Liquid Adhesive, Glitter and Black Copic Marker

The first thing you want to do is cut all your pieces. Your card base (orange cardstock) should be 8.5x5.5” (fold in half to create the card). I also freehand cut the two ovals and V shapes for the spider legs.

At that point, I used my black copic marker to shade the spider pieces. I simply ran the marker across one side of the legs and around the ovals. You don’t have to be particular or make sure everything is perfect – the mistakes add character.

From there, you will want to glue your two ovals together to make the spider body. Overlap them slightly, but remember the smaller piece is the head. Flip the spider body over and begin attaching your legs on one side, using the angle point to line them up.


Remember – spiders have 8 legs so you want 4 on each side! (It is very possible that it is just us pregnant ladies that need the reminder, but I thought I would throw it out there for ya). ;)

Flip the spider back over and use black gemstones for the eyes.

While the spider is drying, use the acrylic alphabet stickers to put the word on your card on the bottom right corner. Attach your spider to the card using pop dots (or other dimensional adhesive). Add a drop of glue to each leg and trim the left legs so they aren’t hanging off of the card (especially if you are putting it in an envelope)!

From there, embellish your card as desired. I simply added a web string of black glitter to give the appearance of the spider crawling down.

Quick and easy cards are perfect for those last minute needs (you know, the ones we always forget about)! And we all know I'm all about the quick & easy!

Weekend Productivity!

Well, it is Wednesday already. The weeks are just flying by (which is a good thing for me right now). Hope everyone is enjoying Fall so far. The leaves here are changing, but this week the weather has been damp - so no getting out to take pictures. :(

As of today, there are 62 days left until my current surgical 'due date'. With everything going on during this pregnancy... I say bring on the baby! Who (at the current moment) is riddled with the name "baby x". Hopefully we'll come up with something better than that in the next 2 months. Probably not, but we'll give it a shot.

At any rate, this past weekend was a crop at Citrus Tree Studio. I was lucky enough to complete 4 challenges - which for me was 3 layouts and a card! That is more than I have done in one scrapping session in awhile, so I was pretty happy.

The last two layouts were created with Momenta supplies, so hopefully they will be up on the Momenta site soon.

Dirty Scraps Challenge #20

Time for another challenge over at Dirty Scraps! This time the prompt is Moving On Up!

I scrapped about the decision to put our pup Onyx to sleep. It was a very difficult one for me, something that weighed heavily on me for months. I still feel twinges of guilt, but I know given the circumstances it was the best decision we could have made for her.


Journaling:
this was the day i learned how much strength i really had. i had dealt with putting dogs to sleep before, but never have I had to make a decision like that one for onyx. she was healthy and young, but mentally unstable. although she was young at only 5 years old, she had always shown signs of aggresion. it had gotten to the point that we were not safe, nor were grayson or the other dogs. the decision to put her to sleep was not easy, but over time it became clear it was the only option. while we miss her daily, we really had no other options. i have learned to be at peace with my decision, and she will always be in our hearts.

I used digital elements from various different designers.

Head on over to Dirty Scraps and check out the challenge. There is a prize up for grabs from Paper Wishes, but you can't win unless you participate!!

Dirty Scraps Blog Hop Winner

Thanks to everybody for stopping by my blog during the Dirty Scraps Blog Hop! I loved hearing the feedback on my owl banner.



So on to the winner...




I printed out all the comments and put them in the dump truck, which had to be driven around for a little while before one would actually be picked. sigh. Please excuse the lack of shirt - we had spaghetti for dinner and it is so much easier to wash him than the clothes!




Then, when I finally convinced him to pick one, he refused to take his eyes off the tv long enough to pose all cute like.

At any rate... I managed to get it out of his hands and the lucky winner is....

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Denise!!


Denise said...
Your owl banner is sooo cute!!! Love how you glimmer misted them. I'm definitely going to follow you now to see what you make next :)

Denise, please email me (you can grab my email from my blogger profile page) so I can get your prize in the mail!

Thanks again to everyone that stopped by - I hope you have checked out the Dirty Scraps blog and all the Design Team blogs to see if you won!

Fall Banner *Dirty Scraps Blog Hop*

Happy Fall Ya'll!!

Welcome to the Dirty Scraps blog hop!!

If you came from Laura's blog, you are on the right track! If you didn't, you might want to start at the beginning (Dirty Scraps Challenge Blog) and follow through so you can check out *ALL* of the awesomeness on the Dirty Scrapper’s blogs without missing anyone. Don't forget to comment and follow all of the blogs for a chance to win the prizes!

I created a fun fall banner - of course with a hinted at southern accent since I have readily adapted it living in the south. ;) I used TONS of fun product on this banner including mists, bling, burlap & even a cinnamon stick!

This banner was lots of fun and adds a little fall feel to my fireplace (which is in my scraproom... jealous, eh?!). I love the colors of fall, so this project went together super easy.

I am a bit backwards of a scrapper, but for this project you will definitely need to mist your chipboard album first. From there I used my Helmar 450 to add embellishment groupings to each of my pieces. After that I added my FALL letters (using Basic Grey Chipboard Letters as templates). Then I added my thickers (happy & ya'll) and continued embellishing each piece until I was happy with the results. I punched holes with my Crop-o-Dile Big Bite, tied in some twine for an added fall feel and all was done!

Supplies: Nikki Sivils Owl Chipboard Album, Imaginisce Flowers, Bazzill Flowers, Prima Crystals, American Crafts Felt Pieces & Thickers, Burlap Scraps, Cinnamon Stick, Joann's Stick Pin, K&Co Gems, Kaiser Craft Pearls, Fancy Pants Paper, Misc. Buttons, Twine and Various Mists (including some I made).

Thanks for visiting and I hope you enjoyed my fall banner as much as I do!

Now, I know you want to qualify for the Momenta Prize I am giving away, but in order to do that you must follow my blog & comment (on this post). This prize is full of Momenta goodness, shimmer and shine! Definitely a fun piece of scrappy mail one lucky winner will receive! The winner will be announced early next week, so be sure to check back then.

And don't forget the rest of the Dirty Scraps blog hop... from here you should head over to Amy's Blog where I know you are in for a treat!!

Huge thanks to the following sponsors for working with Dirty Scraps ...
Liz @ http://javaortea4me.blogspot.com/
Scrapbooking From The Inside Out
And Crop Stop!

Remember, you must leave a comment not only on the Dirty Scraps blog and be a follower, but you also have to leave a comment on all the DTs blogs as well. You only have to become a follower of the DT members blog that you would like to win a prize from. Choose one or all - that is up to you!

Happy Wednesday!

I can't believe it is already Wednesday. The week seems to be going by rather fast in our household!

I am lucky enough to have a HUGE scrapping/sewing/crafting space. The wall is lined with shelves and I love it. However, I (like most other crafters I know) am always looking for the perfect storage. There are a couple things that I have perfected for me, so I wanted to share those with you guys. This is an old picture (Grayson is definitely bigger than that these days), but it looks pretty much the same.


First up is my ribbon storage. I had my ribbons all crammed in jars by color (please ignore the ugly brown panelling on the wall). It was great because I could just grab a jar that matched my layout - except my ribbons were wrinkled and wound up getting all bunched up together. So I could never just grab and pull since they all wanted to come out together.


So I spent a few days cutting pieces of heavy cardboard and wrapping my ribbons around them. I absolutely love it this way! I don't have a wrinkle problem anymore and the ribbons are so easy to see and grab from the drawers.

Then there is my small embellishment storage. Prior to this, I had lots of little fishing tackle boxes. They were great, and honestly worked for awhile... but the hinges and snaps had started to break so the boxes weren't closing properly. So I had saved lots of baby food jars in hopes of doing something creative with them.

Baby food jars are fairly indestructable (unless you happen to drop one down the garbage disposal then turn it on - oops) so I thought they would make good storage. The stage 1 and 2 jars fit in the box perfectly too. So I transferred my storage to these. I keep them flipped upside down so I can see the colors/type of items in them. And the box stays in the bottom drawer of my desk - so I don't have to lift the entire thing, just the jars I want to use!

So there are just a couple ideas of storage from my scrap room. Maybe they will inspire some storage solutions for you!

Corn Maze (Momenta)

Today, my corn maze layout is featured on the Momenta Designer's blog :)

If you have a moment, stop by over there and check it out. Thanks!!

Helmar Halloween Howler Hop

Today is the day - it is the Helmar Halloween Howler Hop!



There are tons of great projects (and tips) from the Helmar Design Team, not to mention a bunch of prizes! So head on over to the Helmar Design Team Blog and 'hop' through to the various designer's blogs.

And then, be sure to check out Helmar's Facebook page for other fun prizes and contests today!!

Tic Tac Toe - travel style

Well, our week has been full of coughs, sniffles, sneezes and such so I don't really have anything new to share. I decided to dig through and find an older project (for the sake of updating my blog) that I don't remember sharing here.

So... I found this travel tic tac toe board I made for the car. It was featured in Ready Set Create where I wrote an article about creatively using things you have in your stash from years past.

I used a piece of acrylic from a Rusty Pickle album, Nikki Sivils papers, some cherry ribbon and some old bottle caps I had in my stash from years past.

After I assembled the board I used diamond glaze on it (you can see the streaks, but my son doesn't care!) to give it more durability. I also coated each bottle cap with diamond glaze so the pieces are nice and strong. They attach to the board via velcro - so they shouldn't fall off and get lost very easily.

I hope everyone has a great weekend and hopefully next week all the sickies will be gone and I can share some new things with you guys!

Dirty Scraps Blog Hop & CTS Crop

I posted a few days ago about the Dirty Scraps blog hop that is coming up October 23 & 24. I just finished up my project, so I wanted to give you a preview... Lots of product used, including some fun mists, bling and LOTS of helmar glue!

And a glimpse of the prize I am offering up to one lucky participant...

It is also the weekend of the Citrus Tree Studio Scraptoberfest Crop. CTS Crops are awesome - with tons of great challenges, prizes and lots of fun conversation. We would love to have you join in the challenges (and the great message board too)!

These are definitely *DO NOT MISS* events, so mark your calendars, send the hubby's away, pack the kid's for grandparents and consider yourself booked up!

Dirty Scraps Challenge 19 & Blog Hop

Have you heard the news? Dirty Scraps is hosting it's first blog hop on October 23rd and 24th. So not only will there be awesome eye candy from the designer's at Dirty Scraps, but there will be some great prizes and fun giveaways too!

Here's a sneak of the prize I am providing... A pack of Momenta goodies - all ready and waiting to be played with!

And on to the current challenge (#19) at Dirty Scraps...

"You thought I didn't know....but I do"

This challenge is all about lies. I decided to scrap about the feeling of betrayal that you get after you discovered you have been lied to. I'm sure we've all experienced it.

Supplies:
Fancy Pants Papers, Bazzill Cardstock, Prima Flowers & Leaves, American Crafts Felt Accent Pieces & Thickers, Kaiser Craft Pearls, Maya Road Sheer, DMC Embroidery Floss, Helmar 450 Glue, Misc Buttons and Doodlebug Designs Alphabet Stickers.



Journaling: I opened my heart and soul to you. I trusted you completely. When I find out you lied, I feel betrayed. It became a quick realization that I don't matter to you. That my feelings aren't important. The trust has been broken and I don't know it can be re-gained.

And here are a couple of close-up shots of the embellishment gatherings...

Be sure to stop by the Dirty Scraps blog and participate in the challenge. You can't win a prize if you don't play along!! And the prize is from Paper Wishes, so hurry up!